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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mademoiselle threatens several times to leave. Why does she end up staying?
(a) Nabokov's mother gives her a raise.
(b) Nabokov's mother gives her gifts.
(c) Nabokov's mother talks her into staying
(d) Nabokov's mother threatens her.

2. What does the rain cause to grow on the estate?
(a) Hibiscus.
(b) Grass.
(c) Mushrooms.
(d) Geraniums.

3. What does Nabokov call the process of using both the English and Russian translations of "Speak, Memory" to shape the current work?
(a) Re-Englishing.
(b) Reediting.
(c) Rewriting.
(d) Redoing.

4. What does Nabokov claim stems more from an ecological longing for the place of his birth, than in his family's loss of property and station?
(a) His anger toward the Germans.
(b) His anger toward the Bolsheviks.
(c) His anger toward the British.
(d) His anger toward the French.

5. What is Nabokov's favorite medium?
(a) Watercolors.
(b) Clay.
(c) Drawing.
(d) Oils.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what are Nabokov's memories in a Russian setting?

2. What properties do the Nabokovs own until the Russian revolution?

3. What mystifies the two boys about Mademoiselle?

4. What is one of his other memories?

5. Who accompanies Vladimir and his companion on the beach?

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